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A Hurricane called katrina
What had been predicted had now immerged
Pontchartrain rising and racing in surge.
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Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast
Mayor C Ray Nagin asked the country to pray in the Holy Ghost.
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New Orleans paralysed with shock n awe
Images of hundreds, mostly black and poor.
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“The levee broke!” He shouted
“This FEM-A joke man” he touted.
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A city of soulful writers and artists who sang the blues
Thousands waiting were not amused.
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Dead people floating facedown in the mire
The people had left who used to sing in the choir.
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Only despair chaos and doom flooded into their front room
Descended like a black cloud rushing in from the Gulf at noon.
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Left behind were the poor who couldn’t get out
Together with gang members and predators with clout.
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The president flying above the clouds in Air Force One
Peering out his port hole at every One.
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Day after day images flooded our screens
Exhausted families, crying children with wailing screams.
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It was awful sight with people stepping around corpses while they begged in steamy heat and stench of dead
The city, known for its “Cities of the dead” was now in terrible dread.
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Why isn’t anyone helping in our time of need?
Everyone stealing, looting in their greed.
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Where is the water they cried... the water is polluted stagnant and grey
Where is the National Guard... the guard on duty in another gulf far away.
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Where are the buses some chide... the buses waterlogged in their bay
Where is America when we need her the most we pray.
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Some policemen broke under the strain, losing their homes and all they had
Turned in their badges in crises and chaos, so very sad.
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Louisiana governor Kathleen Blanco seemed uncertain and sluggish
With the city piling up in so much rubbish.
The lack of rapid response left Americans wondering who to blame?!
Some say the president, some say the mayor, some say FEMA and good ole Brownie again!.
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The American south looked more like a matchstick house blown over by a giant
A day when Katrina was so defiant.
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The suffering all along the Gulf Coast, where homes and whole islands vanished from view
All that was predicted was now startlingly true.
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For most of us will never for get the images of thousands of people trapped, mostly black and poor, in the shadow of the Super dome
Rescue crews plucking hundreds of people off rooftops and delivering them to the landing zone.
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